exit: Implement kthread_exit

The way the per task_struct exit_code is used by kernel threads is not
quite compatible how it is used by userspace applications.  The low
byte of the userspace exit_code value encodes the exit signal.  While
kthreads just use the value as an int holding ordinary kernel function
exit status like -EPERM.

Add kthread_exit to clearly separate the two kinds of uses.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 7113003fab63..77b7c3f23f18 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -268,6 +268,21 @@ void kthread_parkme(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_parkme);
 
+/**
+ * kthread_exit - Cause the current kthread return @result to kthread_stop().
+ * @result: The integer value to return to kthread_stop().
+ *
+ * While kthread_exit can be called directly, it exists so that
+ * functions which do some additional work in non-modular code such as
+ * module_put_and_kthread_exit can be implemented.
+ *
+ * Does not return.
+ */
+void __noreturn kthread_exit(long result)
+{
+	do_exit(result);
+}
+
 static int kthread(void *_create)
 {
 	static const struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };
@@ -286,13 +301,13 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
 	done = xchg(&create->done, NULL);
 	if (!done) {
 		kfree(create);
-		do_exit(-EINTR);
+		kthread_exit(-EINTR);
 	}
 
 	if (!self) {
 		create->result = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 		complete(done);
-		do_exit(-ENOMEM);
+		kthread_exit(-ENOMEM);
 	}
 
 	self->threadfn = threadfn;
@@ -326,7 +341,7 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
 		__kthread_parkme(self);
 		ret = threadfn(data);
 	}
-	do_exit(ret);
+	kthread_exit(ret);
 }
 
 /* called from kernel_clone() to get node information for about to be created task */
@@ -627,7 +642,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_park);
  * instead of calling wake_up_process(): the thread will exit without
  * calling threadfn().
  *
- * If threadfn() may call do_exit() itself, the caller must ensure
+ * If threadfn() may call kthread_exit() itself, the caller must ensure
  * task_struct can't go away.
  *
  * Returns the result of threadfn(), or %-EINTR if wake_up_process()